Cottage Cheese Apple Zucchini Cake
A moist, protein-packed cake featuring cottage cheese, apples, and zucchini with warm cinnamon spices. Gluten-free and low-carb, it's the perfect guilt-free afternoon treat with your coffee.
Servings: 10 slices
Ingredients
- 1 cup grated zucchini all juices squeezed out
- 1 cup cottage cheese blended
- 3 large eggs
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3 cups almond flour
Topping
- ½ large apple diced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F and line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
- Grate the zucchini, squeeze out the liquids as well as you can in smaller batches, and pack a cup with it. Now, you have your measurement for zucchini ready.
- In a large bowl, mix together grated zucchini, cottage cheese, eggs, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda.
- Add in the almond flour slowly and mix gently to combine.
- Pour the batter into the loaf pan, level it out, and top up with diced apple.
- Bake in the oven for 50 minutes. Check with a toothpick, if it doesn’t come out clean, bake it for another 5-10 minutes.
- Let it cool down inside the loaf pan and serve sliced.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 slice (4 oz) | Calories: 275kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 2.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 59mg | Sodium: 191mg | Potassium: 356.3mg | Fiber: 4.7g | Sugar: 10g | Calcium: 145mg | Iron: 1.6mg